Category: True Crime

Happy Birthday To LBC Music Legend Nate Dogg

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Today (August 19) is the birthday of the ‘LBC’ OG, Nate Dogg.

Nathaniel “Nate Dogg” Hale was known for laying his velvety melodic hooks down on some of Hip Hop’s classic west coast bangers. His voice was golden.

Before going solo, Nate Dogg was a member of the rap trio 213. During his solo career he collaborated with artists such as Dr. Dre, Eminem, Warren G, Tupac Shakur, Westside Connection, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Ludacris & Xzibit on many hit releases.

He released three solo albums, G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2 in 1998, Music & Me in 2001, and Nate Dogg  in 2003.

Here’s a few more cool facts about Nate Dogg:

  • He was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1969.
  • He began singing in church as a child where his father was the pastor and his mother — the choir director.
  • He moved to Long Beach, CA at age 14 with his mother after his parents divorced.
  • He is the cousin of LA rappers Butch Cassidy & Snoop Dogg.
  • He dropped out of high school and left his mother’s home at age 17.
  • He served 3 years in US Marine Corps as an ammunition specialist.
  • In the mid 2000’s, Nate formed his own gospel group, Innate Praise.
  • In 2008, Nate Dogg suffered 2 strokes — one leaving the left side of his body paralyzed.
  • In 2011, Nate Dogg died at the age of 41 of complications from the previous strokes.

Rest In Paradise Nate Dogg. Your smooth illustrious voice is truly missed in music. There will never be another you.

Find A Grave: Geri McGee Rosenthal

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Birth: May 16, 1936
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Death: Nov. 9, 1982
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
California, USA

Wife of Las Vegas sports handicapper, Frank Rosenthal, their life story was the focus of a novel, Casino, by author Nicholas Pileggi, and in the subsequent 1995 movie by the same name; her movie role was played by actress Sharon Stone. Born Geraldine “Geri” McGee, she met Anthony Spilotro, the best friend of Frank Rosenthal, at a gambling convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where she began an affair with him. She made her living as a “chip girl” (a good looking woman who hustled gamblers for a chip or two in exchange for temporary companionship) and as a part time topless dancer and occasional prostitute, hanging around the high rolling gamblers in the casinos, where she would move from gambler to gambler. Frank Rosenthal was a brilliant Chicago bookie and odds maker who made millions for the mafia, and was then sent to Las Vegas to recruit the casinos there for organized crime. Rosenthal brought with him his childhood friend and mafia muscleman, Anthony Spilotro, who introduced him to Geri, and soon Frank and Geri were a couple. Frank Rosenthal would soon make the Stardust into one of the leading sports gambling centers in Las Vegas , but on October 4, 1982, an attempt was made on his life by placing a bomb underneath his car. While the bombing attempt failed to kill him, it did bring government and media attention to Frank’s activities. The government quickly gathered sufficient evidence on him to tie him to organized crime, and with that information, the Nevada Gaming Commission ordered Rosenthal to remain out of casinos for the rest of his life. In the meantime, Frank had married Geri and they had two children. To compound Frank’s problems, Geri had become an alcoholic and drug abuser, and was engaging in numerous affairs, including resuming the one with Frank’s best friend Tony Spilotro. Their activities read like a Hollywood movie script, which it ironically became after their deaths. Shortly after Geri’s death, rumors spoke of Frank having her murdered, and he spent up to $50,000 to have an autopsy performed, in which the coroner ruled that she died from an accidental drug overdose of cocaine, valium and whiskey. In spite of her numerous affairs and other problems, she was considered a loving mother to her children.Ā (bio by:Ā Kit and Morgan Benson)
Burial:
Mount Sinai Memorial Park
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: Ramah I, Plot 1569
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Nov 11, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 18376

Book Review: Masking Evil by Carol Anne Davis

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Occasionally, writers and publishing houses send me books to review. Iā€™m a huge reader so any true crime books I can my hands on I devour. Masking Evil by Carol Anne Davis was definitely no exception.

What sets this book apart from the hundreds of true crime titles on the shelves at the moment is its format. The book covers an overview of 37 different cases of good men and women turned evil, from a charity worker who murdered his wives to a policewoman gone bad.

Davis writes almost as if she has first hand knowledge of the events of each crime, showing how thorough and detailed her research is. The snippets at the start of each chapter give an insight into what you can expect from each case, setting the scene and making this book incredibly hard to put down.

In every case, Davis does much more than justā€¦

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